'Tight' over the budget at issue... Negotiations between the ruling and opposition party floor leaders from today

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regular National Assembly ends in three days, but there is still no progress in negotiations on next year's budget.

From today (6th), the floor leaders of the ruling and opposition parties will directly enter into negotiations.

This is Reporter Eom Min-jae.

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chairman of the policy committee of the ruling and opposition parties and the secretary of the preliminary ruling committee sat face to face.

[Park Jung/Secretary of the Democratic Party Preliminary Committee: You shouldn't try to take all of the gallbladder.

The gallbladder is a budget for the common people...

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[Sung Il-jong/Chairman of the People's Power Policy Committee: I've never asked for a liver or a gallbladder, but it's very interesting...

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Although a tentative agreement was reached to cut 1.18 trillion won from the government budget, a tug-of-war continues over additional cuts.

The Democratic Party argues that the budget for public rental housing, jobs, and local currency, which is Lee Jae-myung's representative budget, should be increased by reducing more than 6 trillion won.

The power of the people is the position that it is unacceptable to cut all budgets in the new government's main policies, such as youth cost housing and station area sales.

There is a strong disagreement even over the supplementary bills that are aligned with the budget, such as the Comprehensive Real Estate Tax Act, the Corporate Tax Act, and the Income Tax Act.

The issue of Lee Sang-min's position as Minister of Public Administration and Security can also act as a variable.

[Jeong Jin-seok/Chairman of People's Power Expansion: (Democratic Party) suddenly introduced a plan to dismiss Minister Lee Sang-min and took the people's livelihood budget hostage.]

[Park Hong-geun/Democratic Party Representative: The Democratic Party has repeatedly emphasized that the handling of next year's budget bill and the censure of Minister Lee Sang-min are separate.]

The Democratic Party has a policy of handling not only the dismissal proposal already proposed but also the impeachment resolution, but the power of the people is the agenda If it goes to this plenary session, it is the position that we will not agree on the budget bill.

Starting today, the floor leaders of the ruling and opposition parties will start negotiating.

As the legal deadline has already passed, the ruling and opposition parties need to find a compromise so that even the 9th, when the regular National Assembly ends, can be dealt with.